Kate Atkinson Tells Book Club How She Crafts Characters At All Life Stages

5:07 AM ET Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Welcome to the second session of the Morning Edition Reads book club! Here's how it works: A well-known writer will pick a book he or she loved. We'll all read it. Then, you'll send us your questions about the book. About a month later, we'll reconvene to talk about the book with the author and the writer who picked it. i Kate Atkinson says she never sees her characters at just one stage of their lives. Just as we are constantly thinking about the past, present and future in real life, she constructs her characters in the same way. Euan Myles/Courtesy Hachette Book Group hide caption itoggle...